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Just like the reputation, you cannot see the Cast unless you have voted on that writeup. Otherwise, there is a ' ?' in the location where the Reputation and Cast would otherwise be displayed.

To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.

She was cast to be hanged.
Jeffrey.

Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast.
Dr. H. More.

15.

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.

How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
South.

16.

To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.

17. Print.

To stereotype or electrotype.

18.

To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.

Our parts in the other world will be new cast.
Addison.

To cast anchorNaut. Se under Anchor. -- To cast a horoscope, to calculate it. -- To cast a horse, sheep, or other animal, to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again. -- To cast a shoe, to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox. -- To cast aside, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. -- To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. -- To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. "Why art thou cast down. O my soul?" Ps. xiii. 5. -- To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. -- To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. -- To cast lots. See under Lot. -- To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) Hunting To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) Naut. To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. -- To cast off copy, Print., to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages. -- To cast one's self on ∨ [upon to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to. as to the mercy of another. -- To cast out, to throy out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter. -- To cast the leadNaut., to sound by dropping the lead to the botton. -- To cast the waterMed., to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. -- To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.

And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Shak.

10.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.

Gray with a cast of green.
Woodward.

11.

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.

[Scotch]

We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage.
Smollett.

If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it.
Sir W. Scott.

12.

The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.

13. Falconary

A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.

Grabb.

As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
Spenser.

14.

A stoke, touch, or trick.

[Obs.]

This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false.
Swift.

15.

A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.

The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
Bacon.

And let you see with one cast of an eye.
Addison.

This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye.
Hawthorne.

16.

A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.

17.

Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

18.

Contrivance; plot, design.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

A cast of the eye, a slight squint or strabismus. -- Renal castMed., microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. -- The last cast, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.